The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1933, Page 5

| i $25,000,000 A Year in ru exe Graft on Waterfront Tammany and A. F. L. Leaders Swindle N. Y. _Longshoremen in Job Selling Racket By I Over twent: year is being collected in the longshoremen on the watérirént, This has become a big busifiéSs’ in which the so-called labor leadets*ahd Tammany Hall with a whole’atiny of racketeers are robbing tens of: thousands of longshoremen who work on the city piers, In a statement made to the press 45; Joseph D. Ryan, president @; Laternational Longshoremen’s so@iaéier, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor and head ‘@fsthe State Relief Administra- tion atfaipts to ‘whitewash the graft and corruption that exists in the Am- erican Federation of Labor. He states, ‘y from personal experience ledge that racketeering does ‘on the piers. To say that éen permitted to approach the fabulofis figures of $25,000,000 yearly is aff"ettack upon the business acu- men*6f the representatives of the steainsiiip and railroad interests who ~ operate’ these piers.” “4 The Ticket Racket MnrRyan, if your statement is true we would like to know how it is that you have'mobilized Frankie Madden's beer runners " Tammany. Hall and have been able to build asp- this huge racket, netting well. aver. $25,000,000 a yi For example, when of the L.A. come down to the shape- up toucollect du who gives them ermission to sell tickets to weddings. Sand chances on some raffle Yr ratkchorse at dollars each. Of course the long- shoremen are not forced to buy these if they expect to work they-hed-bettter not refuse. This tick- te reokethas existed for years. At J. FARMER New York one time a strike almost developed bee: se of this racket. This little D iy used on the docks, ‘ns.£n income of several hundred every year and this Job-Selling Ti d& gupposed to be against the law to_gell obs son, Pala, Comradi and Ryan would not break the law. But just the same, jebs are.sold on the I.M.M. docks for - as high. as $24 per year. This price goes Up’ and down ag¢gording to how muci* fo: ts and can be int plans, each fe. Not all jobs ne 5 who can be trusted” | to keep q » usually some foreign-#orker who is afraid to speak becaiie ‘of the fear of deportation. This %‘precticed on ge docks, Samp- son #Th charge of this dock on the west ‘fsfle, Patzi apf Comrada incessant ie in with the support of | delegates | from one to five} nd of course Samp- | ive million dollars a, collect. graft from| thousands of dollars Brooklyn. All delegates of the I.L.A. This runs into hundreds of arly. Tammany Hall s jobs on Mun- sen Line! In order to work on the Munson Line one must go to a demo- cratic club in Brooklyn and get a card for three dollars, This is work for a day or two. If more than $15 |} is made on the job, two more dollars | must be paid to the democratic club. There are many other petty rackets that are worked by the stevedore bosses, who are like the delegates of the L.L.A., also getting a slice of the juicy plums of profit collected from the workers. Just last week one of these stevedore bosses, a Mr. Martino, who works for Castillino Brothers Stevedoring Co., on Pier 18 in Brook- lyn was exposed as the leader of the biggest crimp system ever heard of. Mr. Marino doesnt shape-up the men at the pier. He hires men thru a chain of boarding houses in Brook- lyn. Mr. Martino is a bootlegger who has organized these boarding house owners to buy his wine. In return he hires men from the boarding houses who are assured that they will be able to collect rent. But there are not enough jobs and so there is competition between the boarding house owners. Mr. Martino hires the most men from the house that bu; the most wine and the man that bi the most wine from the boarding house owner gets the jobs. Button-Selling In order to be a member of the I.L.A. a man must join the union and receive a book. This used to cost $50 but now the delegates will sell books for $3 and $3 for the button. But then one does not have to have a book, a button is all it takes to get Jobs. In face of these facts, which every Jongshoreman on the waterfront knows, do you think Mr. Ryan, you can go down on the docks and con- vince these longshoremen that there are no rackets when due to these very same rackets the conditions have be- come so unbearable that longshore- men are beginning to revolt. What happened last week in Brook- lyn will take place again and again until the whole system of graft and corruption has been driven away from the waterfront and the rank and file members will take possession of the LL.A. and will force the steamship owners to give them decent living and working conditions on the docks. And no smoke-screens of lily-white trade unionsism will be used in order to cover up your vicious attacks against the standard of living of the workers within the American Federation of Labor. How Mr.ThomasNoonan 1 L. SPIVAK LOGANS count in this world and sometimes a man strikes upon one that’s: yorth a fortune. That’s what ‘Thomas Noonan did when he hit upon the idea of “helping the help- Jess”sap@“‘seeking the lost.” ‘Todéy.Tom Noonan lives in the Ho- tel Shelton with its spacious swim- ming: peol‘and maids and bell boys to answex his every wish and has a swell suitesaf ‘offices in the Bible House downtown where a corps of good- looking ntenographers and office help work—gli because he is “helping the helplegzjjand “seeking the lost.” ‘The Art of Tom Noonan The¥e®are a great many organiza- tions* who “help the helpless” and “seek the “- *” but not all of them haveaievelopc. the art with Tom Noo- nan’ssskilil. Tom Noonan believes that the work of his Rescue Society, Inc., should<be broadcast to all the world so that it will know what his Chris- tian outfit. is doing and kindly old ladie&Zouched by the sad state the helpless aind the lost are in, will con- tribute to help in this godly work, So ‘tin Noonan broadcasts over the radio, eyery Sunday, telling of John who needs a wheel chair because he is a helpless cripple and has no * money to buy a chair and Louise who - , needs 4 pair of crutches and the hun- dreds“in this great big city who are hungry and homeless. His listeners are touched to the heart and contri- butio’s‘eome in to the tune of about $70,000'@'year. ; The tgntributions are sent in the belief that'‘Tom Noonan’s Rescue So- ciety, Inc; down on Doyers St. in the heart*0fOhinatown’s winding streets Spends*thte-money feeding these un- forturates, And Tom Noonan and his associates are proud to show any one how well they feed them. Go'"down any evening about 8 o'clock arid see how the Rescue So- ciety, “Ine., feeds the unemployed. ‘There is’ tiot a day in the week that ‘Tom Noonan does not “help the help- less” "and:“seek the lost” with four slicesof bread and cup of coffee in retirn’for their singing hymns for the sigii¥seers brought down by the buses‘from Times Sq. ~ Oubd‘of' the annual $70,000 that the Rescue Society, Inc., receives to carry on its godly work they spend all of $1,400'a:.year for the bread and cof- fee and. $25,000 a year for radio broad- casting to get more contributions. The thousands upon thousands of dollars, are spent for overhead, of- » fice salaries and innumer- able Other little details necessary if the world is to continue sending in contributions, {))Summertime Interlude In the summer when poignant ap- » © peals for. food and shelter do not strike.as sympathetic a note as in the winter when cold winds howl about comfortable homes, the broadcasting is dropped. There is no use broad- unless it brings in returns so last k-"Tom Noonan stopped his radio® ‘until September, when with the-coming of cold days, hearts can bertouehed again, Night “@fter night bus loads come - to seé the hungry being fed. Little ” plates*for contributions are placed ‘where (he sightseers may drop their ~ dona IGHT after night these bus loads come and Tom Noonan makes sure that the hungry are fed at the hour when most of the sightseers come— after 8:30 in the evening. The tired, exhausted men who have not slept are not permitted to doze until the sightseers have had a chance to look them over and hear them sing hymns for the four slices of bread and a cup of coffee. Seventy thousand dollars to “help the helpless” and “seek the lost” and out of this $25,000 for radio broad- casting, more thousands for salaries and only $1,400 dollars to feed the hungry. Sometimes a man hits upon a slo- gan that’s worth a fortune. Legion Members Hit Use of Militia in Vermont Strike | Resolution Scoring Terror Adopted by Barre Post Over Heads of the | BARRE, Vermont, May 26. — The strike of the Barre quarry workers now in its eighth week remains un- | shaken although not only police ter ror and brutality but also the armed forces of the state have been mobi- lized against them. The struggle of these workers becomes more deter- mined in spite of all attempts by the bosses, the courts agd the gov- ernment to break it. The workers are on strike against a wage cut. The folowing resolution which describes so vividly the actions of the National Guard was adopted by the local American Legion Post over the heads of county and state of- ficials of the Legion who tried to quash it. The local press refused to print it. Space does not permit the full reprint of the resolution but we are republishing sections of the | resolution as follows: Resolution “WE, the members of the Amer- ican Legion, Barre Post No. 10, and Ex-service men of the City of Barre, Vermont, in special meeting, as- sembled this 17th day of May, 1933, for the purpose of informing the people of the State of Vermont and the United States of America of the abominable acts and conduct of the officers and soldiers of the National Guard in our City and to protest against the presence of the National Guard and the acts of those respon- sible for sending it into our City, do state that on Tuesday, May 9th, soldiers of the National Guard, with- out any warning, threw gas bombs amongst a crowd of men, women and children assembled near Granite St. “That on May 11th about 4 p.m. a crowd of about one thousand people gathered on Main St. op- posite the entrance to Granite St.; it was a good natured crowd of men, women and children, it was com- posed of curious individuals a good! proportion of whom had driven in- Legion Officials to Barre from miles around to see the soldiers and find out what was going on in our City; the crowd did not attack or molest the soldiers in any way or manner, the people were just standing about watching the soldiers. “At about 4:30 p.m. an officer of the National Guard came into Main St. opposite the entrance to Granite St. and facing in a general northerly direction ordered the crowd to dis- perse, he at once turned toward the south-east and repeated the order to disperse; immediately thereafter and without giving the crowd any time or opportunity to disperse the of- ficer blew his whistle and a group of about seventy-five soldiers who had been previously drawn up across the entYince to Granite St., at once charged the crowd with fixed bay- enets, cutting, wounding and tearing the clothing of men, women, and children indiscriminately. The crowd taken completely by surprise by such @ brutal and cowardly assault fell back and scattered as rapidly as possible. The officers and ‘soldiers not content with their vicious and unnecessary bayonet charge then proceeded in squads to drive the people into stores, up alleys, and along Main St. at the point of bay- onets; officers flourished automatics in the faces of men, women and chil- dren. In several instances threaten- ing business men on their own pro- perty with death if they did not get inside their stores and close their doors. “Greatest Provocation” “The only thing that prevented the situation from becoming a bloody holocaust was the remarkable self- control, tolerance and good nature of the people under the stress of the greatest provocation. At the same time these acts were taking place near Granite Street a truck load of soldiers was unloaded near the fire station far from the scene of tne gathering at Granite St.; these soldiers proceeded to move north on Main St. in groups with fixed bay- cnets, into the heart of the business district; about fifteen people were peacefully standing on the steps of the United States Post Office build- ing, a group of about a dozen guards- men under the ecmmand of an of- ficer suddenly stopped on the op- Posite side of the street, formed a fiying wedge, and charged across the street and up the steps of the Post Office driving the people standing there, at the point of their bayonets, through the reyolving door. Place Responsibility “Governor Wilson issued his call for the Militia on May 6th, 1933. On that ‘date there was no riot, re- bellion, insurrection or great op- position to the service of legal pro- cess in the City of Barre. Now was there any riot in the City of Ban during the week ending May 6th. “The responsibility for the presence of the National Guard in our City and the series of cruel and barbar- ous acts committed by its officers and men rests squarely on the should- ers of the following men: Colonel Leonard Wing, in command of the troops; Sheriff Henry C. Lawson, under whose orders the troops are acting; and Governor Stanley C. Wilson, who is commander in’ chief and who called out the National Guard. “Let the people of this state think on this—a bayonet charge by Ver- mont soldiers against unarmed men, women and children who are loyal Vermonters. “The military for the acts of the National Guard in our City should be Court Mar- tialed, and dismissed in disgrace; and the Civil officers responsible should be impeached. officers responsible | Page 4 The Morgan Empire One Hundred Billion I By A. ROCHESTER Morgan 1 network, ng in its ramifications and any money | empire that I ed, reaches eve’ ut this is not the whole story. | The Morgan company is closely al- | lied with the First National Bank and the Bonbright Company The First National Bank and the | Bonbright Company control another $25,000,000,000 of assets. In addition, the Mi ; | powerful influences through other | channels on companies totalling, probably, at least another $50,000,- 000,000 The aggregate Morgan Empire is the colossal wealth of over one hun- dred billion dollars! Unlike the Morgan hearings in 1912, the present grand show in Washington is making no pretense | In the Pay of | Morgan | WASHINGTON, May 26.—Secre- tary of the Treasury, Woodin, got a | letter from J. P, Morgan & Co. say- | \ing “we are thinking of you”. The lletter contained an offer to Woodin | of quick, safe, and easy stock mar- | ket profits. J John J. Raskob, chairman of the | | National Democratic Committee algo | | got one of these letters from the Morgans. Writing from Palm Beach, | Raskob wrote, “I hope that the fu- | ture will give me the opportunity to | reciprocate.” | The following is a partial list of leading capitalist politicians who were being “thought of” by the Mor- gans, and who, no doubt, are willing “to reciprocate”. OFFICIALS OF THE ROOSEVELT GOVERNMENT. | | W.H. Woodin, Secretary of the Treas- | ury. Close personal friend of | Roosevelt. | | William G. McAdoo, Senator from | California. Political and finan- | cial adviser of Roosevet.! | | Norman H. Davis, Chief Delegate at the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. Roosevelt’s adviser on | | foreign affairs. Owen D. Roberts, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. FORMER GOV'T OFFICIALS. Calvin Coolidge, former President of “| the United States. | Charles G. Dawes, former Vice-Pres- | | ident of the United States. Au- | thor of the Dawes Plan for Ger- man Reparations. Charles Francis Adams, former Sec- retary of the Navy. | John W. Davis, former Ambassador | to Great Britain, Democratic | Candidate for President in 1924, | Morgan’s lawyer. Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war, leading politician in the | Democratic Party. | Bernard Baruch, former Chairman of the War Industries Army. | Frank L. Polk, ex-Assistant Secretary | of State. | | Robert E. Olds, former Under-Secre- | tary of State. NATIONAL PARTY LEADERS. | John J. Raskob, Democratic National Chairman. | Joseph R. Nutt, Treasurer of the Re- | : publican National Committee. | in the United y just completed by the | t usively shows that the | nm partners and directo hold y places in firms with total assets 100,000,000. Jollars of Capital Inv Small Financial Clique of uncovering the yan pe r. Twen nt of the ye ate sub-commi I ator Pujo, hired Samu who had been att Morgan interests, to delve Money Trust he But Untermyer g@ lot of interesting were passed whic might make it har hold such a tigh circle of New York banks, thing really happened. yers were ready to tell Morg he could do what he wanted and the past 20 years have x Morgan to p on h but Smart no- enormous increase in the power Today the present J and ready to answer. He Pecora is not attempting to up as the real top No. he 1 bos knc are they United States. cour’ idly 1912. Uncertainties about the U. 8S. Stee: Corporation and the Supreme Co were bothering Morgan in Standard Oil and the Tobacco Tr had been compelled to break up into | groups of apparently competing com panies, and a case against U. S. Steel | was pending. Now the smiling agent Street in the White House ting through an emergen trial Recovery Bill which abandons the principles of the anti- trust law and sets up legal apparat Also, and governme behind him than of preparing the fascist period w! the government becomes openly dictatorship in the interest of capitalist class. Not: ther from the Frank Palmer’s hailing in the Fed- | erated Press a transfer of power from | Wall Street to Washington. Wall Street is more securely than ever in control at Washington, and Wall Street is dominated by the House of Morgan. The little circus at the Sen- ate Office Building is useful in throwing the petty bourgeois critics of Wall Street off the scent of the| main trail. a) the Morgan is actively opposed. tment Controlled by about to a study But only one as close to the House of the companies linked by orships with the First of New York and with & Co. First National Bank closely allied with Morgan n fifty years, After the hearings, Morgan d from the board hree of them sit f the First Na- the First Se- control of First ioned, Bonbright banking - house and powerful rt of the Mor tner! and ps ate grown ri hich represent al- most of the corporate one-sixth wealth in the United States are other billions brought within the sphere of Morgan influence by Morgan men outside of the Morgan firm, the First National Benk and Bonbright & Co. If all their connections could be fol- through would probably r circle representing an- mn dollars operating n sphere of influ- ence Morgan is deliberately playing down the extent of his empire. Di- rectorships are only one way of wielding power. Floating of securi- ties and granting of loans to corpo- rations is quite as important. Here has power far beyond the pass through the hands his firm and his inner ring of banks. There are rival bankers, of course, but few survive any attempt to buck up against Morgan and put over concerns and policies to which of World’s Fite Is Monunwak of Capitalist Exploitation By SAMUEL A. HERMAN Chicago is becoming enveloped in an artificial fog of ballyhoo, spread from out of the Administration Build-} ing of the “Century of Progress” Ex-| position. | The sponsors of the “Fair” are try-| ing their best to creat the illusion in) the mind of the workers that the Ex- position is a purely “scientific” one, | | meriting the support of all persons This “scientific” Fair is supposed to | be entirely divorced from the class struggle and completely devoid of any political aim. But among the large nations of the world, only the Soviet Union was not invited. | A Capitalist Line-Up. It may be well to look into the offi- | cials of the World’s Fair. Among the | eighty names listed as the Board of Trustees of the Fair, are the follow- ing: Rufus C. Dawes, Edward F. Swift, Samuel Insul, Col. Sprague, D. | F. Kelley, George W. Dixon, General ) Abel Davis, Potter Palmer, Col. R. R. McCormick, etc. .. . a veritable Who's Who of the ruling class of Chicago. There are also listed the names of a few nationally known capitalists or their henchmen such as Edward N. ‘FREE RENT? FREE FOOD?’ COPS JEER, AS THEY BATTER JOBL White Workers Hammered on Cell Bars, Forcing Police to Bring Doc By SENDER GARLIN NEW YORK.—“One of the cops said, ‘You want free food?” and kicked me in the stomach. The next cop said, ‘You want free rent?’ and hit me in the face. Another said, ‘You want free gas?’ and struck me in the back of the head. Blood was running from my mouth. It was in ® small room in the back of the 126th St. police sta- tion.” Hammie Snipe, 28-year-old Negro worker told this to the Daily Work- er after he had recovered sufficiently to be able to talk coherently. His arm was in asling, his shoulder broken — with possible internal in- juries—his head battered and his body covered with: welts. Only Snipe’s powerful physique— he weighs 185 pounds—saved him from death at the hands of the police. He is now free on bail fac- ing trial on a charge of “simple assault.” The attack on Snipe took place last Friday after he had been ar- rested with other hungry Negro and white workers before the Harlem sta- tion of Home Relief Bureau. Snipe, who is married and has a six-year-old daughter has been out of work for nearly 20 months. A manhole builder, he earned as much as $42 a week in recent years. Came From South Before coming to New York “in 1928, when Hoover was elected,” Snipe had worked in a grading camp in Texas and at cement-finishing in various parts of Florida and in Bir- mingham, Ala. Born in St. Matthews, So.Carolina, the son of a sharecropper, Snipe early became conscious of the whole system of peonage in the Black Belt. “We had six in our family, and we never get anything out of our labor. By the end of the year, when the crop was made, always my dad owed the landlord.” Six months’ schooling is all Snipe tor to Treat Injuries Inflicted by Third-Degree ESS NEGRO had—“altogether in my whole life.” His oldest sister, he said, gave him lessons at home, is FeAl ee nese did you figst get to realize that a Negro worker ought to fight side by side with his white brothers?” I asked Snipe. “It was in 1929,” he replied. “One day in Harlem—along Lenox Ave.— there was a meeting on the corner and they was talking about John H. Wilkinson, a Pullman porter, who was pulled off the train and lynched down in Georgia. So I stopped. I knew what they was saying was true. After the speaker got through, they invited us up to their headquarters. Later, I joined the Unemployed Council.” Describes Police Attack “Did you have any experience with the police before last week,” I asked Snipe. “They arrested me once before,” he answered. “It was at the Charit- able Organization Society, a Negro organization, about 8-10 months ago. |I went there with a woman as a * delegate from the Unemployed Coun- cil to get relief for her. She had three little kids and they were put- ting her off for months and never gave her anything. So a delegation of six went there and demanded that they give this woman relief, that we wouldn’t leave until they did. Well, they refused to give her relief. In- stead, they called the police. They put us in jail and charged us with disorderly conduct. We stayed in jail only about 8 hours, though. The Social Director of the organization came down and said she didn’t want to press any harges.” eee 'INIPE told of the Harlem demon- stration last week.When the crowd gathered and they put the leader up to speak, the cops called me, and said, ‘Come here, Snipe.’ So I walk- ed up here. They said, ‘Whose lead- ing the delegation?’ I said I don't know anything about whose running the delegation. They said, ‘Move the meeting down the street. I said I am not running this meeting, so I can’t tell them. Later they called the reserves. They jumped out and commenced to jug the crowd with the clubs, and they tell me, ‘Back up’ I was standing near the curb. A cop was jugging me in the stomach, telling me to back up. Well, I was backing up as fast as I could. Then one of the investigators said, ‘Get that guy over there. Me is on parole now for one year.’ This was a lie My case had been dismissed. So they arrested me. Beaten By 7 Cops “Before they arrested me, 7 cops beat me until they knocked me out. ‘They beat me with billies and black- jacks, They beat me all over. They took me away and put me in the reserve wagon, me and another oolor- ed woman. The inspector said, ‘Take that guy in my car and take him down to the police station.’ So they put me in the car 126th St. Station. When I got over there, the captain asked the police ‘What have you got this guy for?’ He said, ‘Can you imagine this dirty mug fighting a cop?’ That's what the policeman said to the captain. The captain said, ‘Why didn’t you kill the black son-of-a-bitch?’ He said, ‘The trouble is with these dam niggers in Harlem, they come up here from the south and they got too much freedom. You ought to be down in Alabama and get hung with the rest of the damn niggers.’ “I said I did not hit the cop. I said the cop was beating me up and by me trying to keep the blows off my head, I put my hand up. He said ‘AH these reds ought to be dead anyway” He said I was a red and I ought to be dead. And so the captain asked the police, ‘What you going to charge him with?’ The Police said, ‘I don’t know.’ The captain then said, ‘Suppose we charge him with disorderly conduct.’ And at the same time, @ plainclothes cop walked up and he said, ‘Charge that guy with disorderiy conduct, hell! Charge him with felonious assault. He's on parole anyway for @ year.’ They took me into a room where they take fingerprints. And the guy who takes the fingerprints said, ‘I am not ready for him yet, Take him over to the sitting room. They took me to the sittting room. There were six plain clothes men waiting for me. Third-Degree “Bo ‘hey sat me on a chair like this, atid they got all around me and sat down. And one of the cops said, “You want free food, eh?’ and he kicked me in the stomach. The next cop said, ‘You want free rent, and he hit me in the face. Another one said, ‘You want free gas,’ and he kicked me, They kept this up, repeating the words all the time. Then the police inspector, a short fellow, he walked up and said, “When I told you to move in front of the Beme Relief Bureau, why didn't you move, you son of a bitch,’ and he said, ‘IN kill you” and he grabbed me by the neck. And they all started beating me again. Spy ue: | “HEN the guy that takes the finger walked in and he said, ‘Just a mun now, that’s wrong, that’s no way to beat a prisoner with blackjacks and clubs. This is the way to beat him.” He picked up a chair, and that’s the time he hit me across the shoulder and he knocked me down. There was a table so I slid underneath the table. So he took the chair and beat me with the chair. I wes stretched under the table and they kicked me until they knocked me out underneath the table. Then they got a bucket of water and threw it in my face. But I didn’t move anyway, because I knew if I moved, they would beat me up some more. Then they put my head down in the water in the sink. They put me on a chair, and said ‘This guy is dying. We better call an ambulance.’ | The ambulance doctor came about | five minutes later. He said, ‘I be- lieve this fellow is in very bad shape. We better get him to the hospital as quick as possible.’ Just then I woke. up. It was a good thing, be- cause if this guy took me to the hispital, I would never get out any more. I figured they would give me something and kill me. When I woke up, they didn’t take me to the hos- pital. They took me and they locked me up all alone in the cage until the patrol came to take me dc%y to the central police headquarters on Center Street. “When we got there, I laid down on the bench waiting until they took some more pictures of other fellows. And when they got ready for me, this cop came over to me and he jugged me and he said, ‘Get up, you bastard.’ This cop never saw me be- fore. He only did it because I was a Negro. They took my picture and they went upstairs and asked the captain whether I could stay down there that night. They told them, yes. So they locked me up. “I ran into some of the white com- | stand.” | rades there, and they asked me what I was here for. They asked me did I need a doctor. So they knocked on the bars with their cups and hol- lered, ‘This man needs a doctor The guard came over and said they didn’t stop that racket, would take me out and kill I sat down because I didn’t want no more beating. But these comrades raised a racket and they calied the am- bulance doctor. And when he came he asked me how it happened. And I told him and he said, ‘There ought to be som i police from third-degreeing.’ I don't know if he meant it or not. He s some morphine in my arm to kill the pain. I stayed in jail until the | next morning. The next morning about 9 o'clock, they take me up-| Stairs. I didn’t have a mouthful to} eat since the day before. * * “TURING the trial, they said to me, ‘You are a member of the) Communist Party, aren't you? I said, | “No, I am a member of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the Unemployed Council. He said, ‘What kind of an organization is that?’ I said, ‘It is an organization that fights for all rights of the Negroes in the U. 8.’ He said, ‘Is this leaflet yours?’ I said no. I didn’t have nothing more in my pocket except five pages of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments of the Constitution of the United | States, from the Bill of Civil Rights. | Then he told me to go off the if ILLUSTRATED TALK ON SOUTH NEW YORK—Sender Garlin, of the Editorial Staff of the Daily Worker, who has just returned from the South, will give an illustrated talk, “Sidelights on the South,” at the National Students League, 533 Sixth Avenue, between 16 and 17th Streets, Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. He will discuss the Scottsboro, Talla- poosa and Herndon cases. Hurley, (war-time chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board), Matthew Woll, labor misleader and red baiter, and others. Unwittingly these capitalist officials of the Fair give the lie elsewhere to their claim about an “impartial” and “scientific” Fair. It is a small book- let entitled: “A Century of Progress International Exposition 1933,” they let the cat out of the bag. “The cooperation established be- tween labor and management ... has resulted in great comfort to all the people and promises to develop a bet- ter feeling and understanding be- tween all classes of the people (Matthew Woll’s class-collaboration policy, S. A. H.). It offers hope that by the further use of science and the r co-operation of laborer and management, the next century of may witness the achieve- ment of the victory over poverty it- self.” (Ghosts of Hoover's election, promises!—S. A, H.) The very name given to the Expo- sition: “A Cen of Progress,” is a snare and de The only substant: was made in the la seizure of power by the Russian Ww ers, the enormous progress in technical development, industrial ex- pansion, and collective farming, the rapid increase in the standard of liv- ing of the Russian masses as a result of the Five Year Plan The Employment Myth. For many months the capitalist ss has been spreading fairy tales ial progress that t 100 years, the about the Fair increasing employment helpi to end the depression, etc. workers who were unem~ in neighboring states came to nent at the Fair. They found lines of Chicago unemployed side the fair grounds seeking the same elusive job. In all only a few thousand were hired and these will soon be laid off The ones hired were worked under severe speed-up conditions in @ des- perate effort to get the fair com- pleted on time, and at a minimum of expense. Many were injured in va- rious accidents that can be directly traced to the speed-up system. A Century of Poverty Exhibit This little village of exhibitions erected by the shore of Lake Michi- gan and dubbed “A Century of Pro- gress,” is situated but a stone’s throw from one of the largest slum sections in the city—the Black Belt. There tens of thousands of Negroes live in antiquated, dilapidated buildings and eke out a miserable existence, Not far away from the Fair also is South State St. and West Madison St. with its breadlines, flop houses, foul, cheap restaurants. And on the sidewalks endless streams of ragged unem~ ployed shuffle along. Also not far away are numerous houses of prostitution running quite openly under the protection of gang- sters and racketeers and their politf- cal associates in the city administra- tion. And spreading ‘over the entire city, outnumbering even the numerous “Let's Go Chicago” and “Chicago Will Come Back First” signs displayed in store windows, are the millions of workers suffering under a vicious stagger system, and the 900,000 com~ pletely unemployed (of which the South State St. and West Madison St. groups are a more conspicuous but smaller section). Such is the irony of capitalism— the only “progress” it can show is in a gaudy village erected by the lake. ‘The rest of the city and of the Untted States shows clearly decay , not